More From People Who Wish Their Dad Were Still Here

One night last January my dad went to the hospital in terrible pain in his stomach. Six weeks later he was dead. We found out after that the mesh patch they used to repair his hernia 2 years earlier broke apart inside him strangulating his bowel. He was never sick...ever...

I was raised without a father, but only a mother.
How girls at school say how much they loved their fathers.
every time it was father's day, I had to be doing another activity since I had no father to gift.
I wonder why he walked out of my life. Why he never had the chance to...

My dad died when i was 8 yrs old. I never got to spend an amzing amount of time with him, but he was the only person who never abused me in any way. All the other people i have lived with have. I loved him so much, and whenhe died, a piece of me died too. I think about him often...